I'm a historian specializing in American cities, suburbs, and metro areas.
I earned my doctorate in American history at Columbia University, then served on the faculties at Arizona State University West and UC San Diego, where I was tenured.
During my years at UCSD, I taught hundreds of students, wrote two books, got married, had a kid, and did a monster commute from Los Angeles to La Jolla.
In 2006, when our second kid arrived, I left "traditional" academia to become an L.A.-based historian and consultant.